Relativity

Relativity:
minute physics:
special relativity introe=mc2 ch1 ch2 ch3
black holes and relativity

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video game based on relativistic motion: (I can't get it to work on the school computers, needs a graphics card): http://gamelab.mit.edu/games/a-slower-speed-of-light/

1946 short story: Mr. Thopmkin's Journey:
http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~durkin/phys1201/MrTompkinshort.pdf

Twin Paradox funny animation from the 70s - "peace" : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewfRxjesNTs
Physics Girl explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERgwVm9qWKA

Simultanaety : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wteiuxyqtoM

Train paradox (how can a length contracted train fit in a tunnel) explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGsbBw1I0Rg

"The Mechanical Universe" series dated 1985 (about 30 minutes each)
41. The Michelson-Morley experiment:
42. The Lorentz Transformation:
43. Velocity and Time:
44. Mass, Momentum and Energy:
(there is some dispute as to the correct usage of relativistic mass (scroll down to controversy) but in Provincial and IB curriculae, relative motion increases mass)

movie, "E=mc2 -Einstein and the World's Most Famous Equation" (1 hour and fourty minutes reenactments with interviews and narration)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJAP4-Gk6Nk

Stephen Hawking on the Universe 2008(10 minute Ted Talk): http://www.ted.com/talks/stephen_hawking_asks_big_questions_about_the_universe.html

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Stephen Hawking is a theoretical physicist and wrote the unbelievably successful "A Brief History of Time"(available in the Churchill Library) http://www.fisica.net/relatividade/stephen_hawking_a_brief_history_of_time.pdf
Funny stuff:
Singing Monty Python's "the galaxy shong": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFNCjbQk9IU

getting a new voice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqXOlfwlVag
Playing chess with antman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi0BzqV_b44


Movies about his life:
movie, "A Brief History of Time" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAfxKExKjVQ

2014 movie trailer for "The Theory of Everything" :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Salz7uGp72c